Causes
The end of the Seven Years War prompted this agreement to be signed between England, France, and Spain
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
Further westward settlement of the Appalachian Mountains prompted the creation of the nation's first colonial boundary, which came after what event?
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
The act of illegally importing and exporting goods from one country to another.
What is smuggling?
Following the repeal of the Stamp Act, Britain issued this Act, which declared that all further taxes issued by the British Parliament applied to the colonies also.
What is the Declaratory Act?
The leader of the Sons of Liberty
Who is Samuel Adams
When the Stamp Act was issued
What is 1765?
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
The conclusion of the Seven Years' War led this European nation's land possessions doubling in size.
Taxes paid on imported and exported goods
What are customs duties?
The signing of this document made the colonies independent from Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson
When did the Boston Massacre occur?
What is 1770?
In 1767, to decrease the number of smuggled goods into the colonies, Britain's finance minister issued this series of revenue acts on a large number of imported goods, which led to greater amounts of boycotting in the colonies, too.
What are the Townshend Acts?
1770; in response to the outcome of the Boston Massacre, King George III repealed most of the taxes placed upon goods that were introduced with these Acts, all except tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
The center of the American Revolution before the colonists declared independence.
What is Boston, MA?
1775; the colonists sent King George III this document, which contained a peace agreement where the colonists promised to repay money lost during the Boston Tea Party if they were to be given representation in the British Parliament.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
After the Stamp Act was passed (1765), and following the Boston Massacre (1770), these groups started to organize to communicate about the events occurring in the colonies; they were broken up as a part of the Coercive Acts in 1774.
What are the committees of correspondence?
When were the Intolerable/Coercive Acts passed?
1773; Britain and the East India Trading Company sought to monopolize tea, which led to this Act being passed and angered tea merchants in the city of Boston, which led to the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Tea Act?
1774; these Acts were passed following the Boston Tea Party, which shut down Boston Harbor, put the citizens and city of Boston under lockdown by the British, and prevented colonial assemblies from gathering.
What are the Intolerable/Coercive Acts?
The location of the 1st and 2nd Continental Congresses
What is Philadelphia, PA?
December 1773; members of the Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians and overthrow a shipment of tea by the British East India Company into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The name for British soldiers during the Revolutionary period
What are Redcoats?
When did the Seven Years' War end in North America?
What is 1760?
1760; the end of this conflict in North America led the British to seek out ways to replenish its economy after throwing all of its money into securing a victory against the French empire.
The French and Indian (Seven Years') War
1774; in response to the Coercive/Acts, this group met in Philadelphia, PA to discuss how they should respond
1775; following the "shot heard around the world", this group met to form the Continental Army that would be led by G. Washington
What are the 1st and 2nd Continental Congresses?
The date when the colonists became Americans and the United States was formed.
July 4, 1776
This man contributed ideas to American independence before the Declaration was signed, writing a pamphlet that advised the British that colonial (American) independence was inevitable.
Who is Thomas Paine?
When did the first battle of the American Revolutionary War take place? (Month and Year necessary in your response)
What is April 1775?